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Received: January 18, 2022; Accepted: February 4, 2022; Published: February 16, 2022
Abstract: The Early preparation of children to become entrepreneurs is an essential issue in front of the international
communities. The study keens to shed the light on the importance of forming the child entrepreneur from the kindergarten
stage to form global entrepreneurs that serve multiple developmental sectors. The idea of raising a child to become an
entrepreneur, owning his project and his skills, mastering the arts of management, marketing, solving problems, and dealing
with groups all require institutional and international sponsorship to achieve this. Therefore, raising a child to be a risk-taker
and have a creative idea and implement it; is the twenty-first century's skill. So, it will reap many fruits in the various areas of
sustainable development that the current study aims to. The study discusses the pivotal educational approaches for the child to
become an entrepreneur. The researcher has developed three approaches, the objective-oriented discovery learning approach,
transforming valuable ideas for children into entrepreneurial projects, and the creative impact assessment on the child
entrepreneur's growth approach. The researcher developed the expected scenarios to achieve these approaches, teaching
philosophy to children, the Federation of Child Entrepreneurs Scenario, and chains of Achievements for Children
Entrepreneurs Scenario. The researcher also designed a futuristic framework to achieve these scenarios by referring to the
competencies and the best practices.
Keywords: Child-Entrepreneur, Preparation-Approaches, Scenario-Framework
Teaching entrepreneurship to children: A case study” in 2011, How can educationalists create the child entrepreneur?
she mentioned that it is important for children to tie with The following sub-questions emerge from this question:
entrepreneurship education programs to cultivate the 1. What are the global changes that necessitated the
entrepreneurial culture in their personalities. It is significance formation of the child entrepreneur?
to include entrepreneurship teaching in the educational 2. What are the leading educational approaches that create
system and should establish a relationship between schools the child entrepreneur?
and the business world [3]. 3. what are the expected scenarios for the future of the
Children at the early age stages feel that what they do by child entrepreneur?
themselves is valuable; their parents and teachers trust them The study objectives
and provide them with a hand of support, care, and solidarity. The current study aims at the following:
The idea grows with them in the late childhood and 1. Forming the child entrepreneur in all the stages of
adolescence stages, where they feel more independent, self- learning.
growth, and maturity. They are proud of the small, 2. Increasing the capabilities of teachers and children with
accomplished projects as young entrepreneurs. entrepreneurial skills.
That is why the current research focuses on the extent of 3. Relying on best educational approaches that contribute
the possibility of qualifying and preparing children to to the formation of children entrepreneurs.
become entrepreneurs in their various age stages. It also 4. Predicting the future of children entrepreneurs.
focuses on the key futuristic approaches that form the child Study Methodology
entrepreneur. The current study relies on one of the qualitative methods,
The study’s issue such as scenarios based on a forecasting approach, to predict
The current study focuses on forming the child the future of child entrepreneurs in various fields of
entrepreneur in the knowledge age and fifth-generation sustainable development.
technology. Also, the study touches on the futuristic
approaches that can be relied upon in educational institutions 2. Literature Review
for children entrepreneurs' formation.
The study questions The following table presents the previous studies and its
The main research question is: findings:
The benefits from the literature review: learning to navigate his/her way through the world, mostly
1. Most of the studies focused on teaching the concerned about how he /she fits into the larger picture of life”
entrepreneurial thinking of the child in the early s/he “hyper-focus” in his/her project” [11].
childhood stage. Ultimately, the child entrepreneur is a child with special
2. The studies focused on the importance of the abilities from the beginning of his infancy, and he has
entrepreneurial formation of the child through different interests from his peers of the same age. S/he
educational programs and activities. dreams of achieving large-scale profits. He also has the seeds
3. Several studies have sought to implement of adventure that s/he brought up until he becomes an adult
entrepreneurship programs within education classes in entrepreneur.
the primary, preparatory, and secondary levels. The global changes that necessitated the formation of the
4. Most studies considered the differences between child entrepreneur.
learners when implementing entrepreneurial activities. The technological and economic conditions and their
5. The studies used qualitative and quantitative approaches social-political repercussions since the beginning of the
based on analysis, description, conclusion, and twenty-first century have necessitated the shift to small
performance assessment. projects and entrepreneurship in all areas of development.
Conceptual framework Therefore, many developing countries may suffer from
The current study is based on the concepts of unemployment and a lack of job opportunities for the
entrepreneurship and the child entrepreneur. educated and the uneducated people.
Entrepreneurship:” skill in starting new businesses, Key pillars for the global changes.
especially when this involves seeing new opportunities” [19], 1. The world is witnessing a state of optimism in
Entrepreneurship is defined as “The capacity and willingness economic growth in late 2021 and early 2022, which
to develop organize and manage a business venture along necessitates the need to adopt new approaches to revive
with any of its risks in order to make a profit. The most the global economy, the most important of which is the
obvious example of entrepreneurship is the starting of new green economy.
businesses” [13]. 2. For 2022, we are expecting growth to be a percentage
In my opinion, entrepreneurship consists of several point higher than we did last year (4.4% instead of 3.1%)
elements: the incubation of the innovative idea in the [16].
entrepreneur's mindset, the insistence on implementing the 3. “Beyond 2022 global growth is projected to moderate to
thought in the surrounding context, and the presence of 3.3 percent into the medium term. Persistent damage to
growing markets for idea spreading. supply potential across both advanced and emerging
Entrepreneur, “a person who starts a business and is market economies and slower labor force growth
willing to risk loss in order to make money” [20]. a child because of population aging (largely in advanced
entrepreneur “doesn’t operate the same as other children, economies, but also in a few emerging market
his/her live is centered around investigation and discovery; economies), and necessary rebalancing to a sustainable
Higher Education Research 2022; 7(1): 16-22 19
growth path in China, are all expected to weigh on the solving and creative thinking.
growth outlook for the global economy in the medium The second approach: Transforming valuable ideas for
term” [10]. children into entrepreneurial projects.
4. The last UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in This approach follows the previous one, where children's
November 2021 will be a pivotal moment for the abilities improve by transforming their new and innovative
world’s largest emitters to commit to more aggressive ideas into actual values and start-ups. The managers will
national targets and agree on rules for carbon trading— support the children’s entrepreneurs in applying their small
specifically Article 6 of the Paris Agreement60—that projects within educational institutions, such as exhibitions,
can accelerate investments in the transition to a low competitions, and they deal with partners and suppliers.
carbon global economy [17]. Hence, they will take real opportunities to be budding
From the mentioned pillars, we can refer to; by the entrepreneurs in schools. As well as they will make profits
beginning of 2022 will be a real opportunity for human for their small projects.
investment in all areas of development with the importance For example, when a child wants to work on a small
of preserving the environment and reducing harmful project to raise and sell poultry, he will discuss the matter
emissions and carbon dioxide. So, the countries will invest with the teachers in the school. So, the teachers will guide the
the youth energies in various fields of work and small student to the merchants to buy small poultry and build a
projects with the existence of the emerging markets virtually small barn inside the school. Then the teachers instruct the
and in real life that support the youth's small projects. student on the steps to raise poultry healthily and
The educational approaches that create the child nutritionally through veterinarians to check on them
entrepreneur. periodically.
The educational approaches to rearing a child to be an After that, the officials follow up with the child
entrepreneur differ from the usual approaches to educating a entrepreneur, the growth of poultry day after day, and when
child from nursery to secondary school. So, it is necessary to the child wants to sell poultry, the school and leaders
have essential elements in the approaches that form the child encourage him to sell by helping the child entrepreneur in
entrepreneur. These fundamental elements are fostering the marketing the project virtually and realistically. The child
spirit of innovation, rational adventure, critical thinking, in- entrepreneur reaps profits for his idea and the institution that
depth observation of reality, and convincing others of the helped him.
proposed creative ideas. In Malta there is growing awareness about the importance
The following are some educational approaches that of entrepreneurship education. The NCF (the national
motivate the preparation and formation of the child curriculum framework) introduces “Education for
entrepreneur in the various scientific and developmental Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation” as one of six
domains. cross-curricular themes which are deemed to be “essential for
1. The objective-oriented discovery learning approach. the education of all students and for achieving the aims of
2. Transforming valuable ideas for children into education.” [5].
entrepreneurial projects approach. Consequently, educational institutions are essential for
3. The creative impact assessment on the child forming the key competencies that motivate the child
entrepreneur's growth approach. entrepreneur for creativity and lifelong learning.
The first approach: the objective-oriented discovery The third approach: creative impact assessment on the
learning. child entrepreneur's growth.
The goal-oriented exploration approach sought to teach The idea of the impact assessment of the child
children entrepreneurship according to specific educational entrepreneur's creative, and its reflection on his cognitive,
goals such as discovering renewable energies and thinking of professional, social, moral, and personality development,
small projects to implement them on the ground. which is in a state of maturity, is a pivotal stage. In addition,
That is, a clear and declared goal that directs children's the ongoing appreciation of the child entrepreneur's
paths to discovery and learning in the fields of science, achievements is so important to refine his skills and
history, literature, mathematics, languages, and technology continuously improve his performance.
makes the child entrepreneurs more motivated and In other words, the creative moments that the child
productive to think about entrepreneurial projects. entrepreneur experiences at the early beginning of his life;
According to Lorna A. Collins ““Discovering have a powerful impact on his future life as an entrepreneur
entrepreneurship” (hereafter DE), using participatory possess the projects that have grown up and matured from his
synergistic learning methods. DE takes a tripartite approach childhood.
to teaching entrepreneurship capacities by involving In Malaysia, the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of kid
undergraduate nascent entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship were investigated and developed Kid
facilitators in a collaborative learning environment where all Entrepreneurship (play-based learning) for Learning and
participants learn with and from each other” [2]. The nascent Assessment Systems (KELAS) for Malaysian early
entrepreneurs are action oriented and learning by doing childhood institutions. This experience of learning
which encompasses skills like critical thinking, problem entrepreneurship through play helps invest children's energies
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in doing benefits and investing the surrounding environment materials-determination of inquiry questions -talk time -art
in creating new resources that serve children's innovative activities-small groups). The influences of P4C are
projects. The assessment resulted in children's ability to make improving thinking skills, dialogue skills, communicative
valuable decisions based on planning and anticipation of practices, habits of mind, practicing of critical, caring,
positive and negative outcomes [9]. creative, and collaborative thinking and putting everything,
For example, the child entrepreneur who manages the including the procedures, into question [8, ].
poultry start-up sells and markets poultry; the school 2. The Federation of Child Entrepreneurs Scenario
evaluates the impact of such experience on the child Through the Children's Entrepreneurs Association,
entrepreneur in the next year. children can find comprehensive care and guidance from
The managers will assess how the project matured and expert entrepreneurs all over the world. The global federation
recognize the mistakes made in the last year concerning of child entrepreneurs will facilitate the process of
poultry care and marketing for sale, profits' distribution, implementing pioneering projects for children, not only in
anticipating risk, which creates an entrepreneur who can their own country but also in countries around the world.
break into the market with creative ideas. It is also possible for child entrepreneurs from all over the
From this point of view, teaching entrepreneurship world to participate in various entrepreneurial projects that
according to a specific goal, transforming valuable ideas into generate profits for them and for countries as well and
entrepreneurial projects, and evaluating the impact of the motivate them to innovate and be creative in various areas of
gained experience are fundamental approaches for creating development.
the child entrepreneur. The innovation hubs and access to the international
Also, learning entrepreneurship from early childhood is a business incubators motivate child entrepreneurs to exchange
promising opportunity for economic, cultural, social, and global experiences and give them the opportunity to travel
political life development. abroad to achieve their start-ups or learn from the
The expected scenarios for the future of the child entrepreneurs' experiences in different countries all over the
entrepreneur. world. This will also serve their scientific studies in different
This section will discuss the future dimension related to learning stages of life, as their perceptions expand in study
teaching entrepreneurship in schools. So, the researcher and work, and gain more experiences and skills as well.
designs a future framework based on a set of scenarios. 3. Chains of Achievements for Children Entrepreneurs
1. Teaching philosophy to children's scenario Scenario
Teaching philosophy to children at a young age is essential It is important to observe the value of the children
to teach children the thinking patterns and problem-solving entrepreneurs' achievements especially through the
and the ability to think and observe deeply. Teaching Federation of Children Entrepreneurs all over the world.
philosophy to children inspires creativity, not just criticism Harvest the added value from the young entrepreneurs’
and analysis, which enriches the brain development of the achievements will amaze the whole world soon, especially
entrepreneur child and makes him search for the project that when it comes to solving real problems and crises that the
will shape his whole life later. Consequently, it provides the world suffers from such as energy, water, epidemics, climate
child entrepreneur with a keen vision. change, the disappearance and drowning of specific cities,
Philosophy for Children (P4C) was originally developed Refugees and armed conflict, Poverty, famine and starvation,
by Professor Matthew Lipman in New Jersey, USA in 1970 financial and administrative corruption...…. And the radical
with the establishment of the Institute for the Advancement solutions and alternatives to such problems in vital projects
of Philosophy for Children (IAPC). Community of that stem from the child entrepreneurs in everywhere in the
philosophical inquiry is the cornerstone of all approaches. It world.
includes:-(the group of children & adults their arguments and The following futuristic framework represents these
philosophical dialogues- the presentation of stimulus scenarios in detail:
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